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Office for Harmonization and Coordination of Payment Systems in Agriculture, Food and Rural Development of B&H

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IPA

IPA

The pre-accession aid instrument IPA is a financial instrument of support from the EU to countries that are applying for EU membership. This pre-accession instrument inherited all earlier pre-accession instruments (SAPARD, ISPA, PHARE, CARDS) and combined them into one. The IPA instrument was established by EU Council Regulation no. 1085/2006, while implementation is regulated by Regulation 718/2007. The financial envelope of the IPA, for the seven-year period 2007-2013, amounted to 11.5 billion euros.

The main goal of the IPA program is to help candidate countries and potential candidates in harmonizing legislation with the EU acquis, as well as help in preparing for the use of funds that will be available to the country after membership in the Union. IPA is divided into five components:

  1. Help with transition and institution building

  2. Cross-border cooperation

  3. Regional development

  4. Development of human resources i

  5. Rural development

Funds from all 5 components of the IPA are available exclusively to candidate countries, while only funds from the first two components are available to potential candidate countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. The reason is that BiH does not have the status of a candidate country (a political condition) and does not have an established decentralized implementation system (DIS), which is a necessary technical prerequisite for the use of all five components.